Raghav

Armchair Middle-East affairs specialist. Classic aficionado. likes reading and enjoys nature ! Yalla Habibi !! La Vita è Bella !!

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

4th verse of Gita in 3rd. chapter is one of my most favourite which goes on to say ...

"abstaining from action does not lead to liberation from the consequences of one's actions. Similarly, simply renouncing worldly activities does not result in spiritual perfection."

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[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

Impressive and very interesting !

[Palantir @PalantirTech]

"This is Maven Smart System—Palantir’s software as a service product that we are deploying across the entire department."

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

@hbptechie @royan_sanju @Uber_India does this work ? if driver does this, how can i call you ?

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

If not this land blessed, how do you think we are surviving with this kind of people sitting at highcourts !!

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Bombay High Court Judge Duped Of Rs 6 Lakhs In Online Credit Card Fraud

https://t.co/xORc0U4OSK

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

this guy is a maniac i feel

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

"The Pentagon isn’t asking you to help build Skynet. They’re asking you to not have veto power over how a democratically accountable military uses a tool it purchased. Their point about “all lawful purposes” is actually the correct institutional boundary: the military operates under law, under civilian control, under congressional oversight"

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

Thus I’ll start using Claude premium soon.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.

Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.

Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.

The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.

Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.

As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.

Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.

In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.

America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

@somnath1978 So easy to sit and presume huh, the production is in the hands of those who work on ground, directly proportional to the efficiency of those hands. and it's not even worth talking about the efficiency of those on ground workers, lost battle long back.

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

I don't know what these fuckin idiots at @GalgotiasGU are doing with Chinese robot dogs, @BostonDynamics is doing this shit when I was in school. and that's more than 10 years ago, and then calling ahead of curve, more like ahead of my ass.

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

@studiojoyride_ Incredible work ! niche content !

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

@insidemanifest 222

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

😂😂

[Karti P Chidambaram @KartiPC]

Next Cuba? @aravind

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

Finally, a small step towards “looking in”

I hope this leads to much more greater exploration of our own ancient culture and in doing so throw the surprises that makes INDOLOGY attractive and interesting!

Good luck @INSVKaundinya

[INSV Kaundinya @INSVKaundinya]

On 17 Dec 2021, a moment of serendipity brought @sanjeevsanyal and the Indian Navy together into a discussion on the feasibility of designing & constructing an ancient stitched ship. That discussion culminated into INSV Kaundinya Project.

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

2,000 years ago, an Indian mariner’s journey changed the course of Southeast Asian history. Today, his legacy sails again.

When Kaundinya found himself shipwrecked near the Mekong Delta, he couldn’t have imagined he would become the founder of a kingdom. Now, centuries later, the Indian Navy has rebuilt history—literally.

INSV Kaundinya, crafted entirely using ancient maritime techniques, is more than a ship. It's a tribute to the first recorded Indian seafarer, a revival of oceanic heritage, and a living story stitched with rope, sails, and memory.

Scroll down through to discover a tale of love, legacy, and lost craftsmanship, resurrected.

#MaritimeHeritage #IndianNavy #AncientIndia #SoutheastAsiaHistory #HistoryofIndia

[Ancient maritime history, Indian naval legacy, INSV Kaundinya, History of India]

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

Incredible!

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨 A student in the US just discovered MILLIONS of new space objects.

The astronomy world was recently shaken by a discovery from an unexpected source: a teenager still in high school. Matteo Paz, a student from Pasadena, utilized archival data from NASA’s retired NEOWISE mission to bring 1.5 million invisible cosmic objects into the light.

During a stint at Caltech’s Planet Finder Academy, and mentored by astrophysicist Davy Kirkpatrick, Paz took a novel approach to data analysis. He built a unique machine learning model capable of sifting through a staggering 200 billion infrared records. In a span of only six weeks, his AI detected subtle patterns that human analysts had missed, identifying everything from distant quasars to exploding supernovas.

Paz’s findings were so robust that they earned him a spot in the prestigious The Astronomical Journal and a position as a research assistant at Caltech. His work does more than just populate star maps; it provides specific coordinates for the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate further. This breakthrough highlights a growing trend where fresh perspectives and AI tools allow young researchers to make historic scientific impacts from the classroom.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

So over the weekend, when my idle mind was playing devils workshop, I asked myself, if I had to do a Phileas Fogg type Around India in 80 Trains type of challenge, where I had to touch all the states and UTs of India only via trains, what would be the best way to do it?

I wondered, is it even possible?

Turns out, it is.

So in case if you are ever asked on a date on "How can you touch all the states in India thru train journeys alone?" Here is your answer

This journey starts in the South of India. Tirunelveli to be precise.

Start by praying to to Nelliyappar swamy and have the famous Iruttu Kadai Halwa and then get on the 19577 - Tirunelveli Jamnagar Express.

Over the next 54 hours, you will pass thru the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Once you reach Jamnagar and touch the Capitalism Capital of India, get on board the 12477 - Jamnagar - Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express.

You will cover Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Chandigarh, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir.

Take the blessings of Mata here, because from now the journey is going to get arduous.

From Vaishno Devi, you take the 14503, Vaishno Devi - Kalka Express, because Kalka is one of the few places in Himachal Pradesh which has a rail network.

While at Kalka, If you have the chance, do take the Kalka - Shimla hill railway as well. It is an amazing train journey, with 100 odd tunnels and will tell you what extreme steps the British took, to run away from Indian heat.

Once you are back, board the 12005 - Kalka - Delhi Shatabdi to get to Delhi and prepare for the most challenging leg of the journey.

A journey that will take you thru the Gangetic plains, the Badlands of Bihar, the bustle of Bengal and the beauty of the North East. However, is is nothing as compared to breathing the 1574 AQI Delhi Air.

You first start with the 22457 Delhi - Haridwar, Vande Bharat, to tick Uttarakhand off your map.

Use this chance to spiritually recharge yourself by visiting Haridwar and Rishikesh. You can also take a dip in the holy Ganga to wash all your sins away. And breathe some nice clean mountain air. After Delhi, you need it.

Once you have cleansed yourself, internally and externally, board the 13009 Haridwar - Howrah Doon Express.

This will take you thru, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal to drop you off at Kolkata.

Eat Rasgollas, Mishti Doi, Jhal muri and the taste of Communist poverty before you embark on the tour of North Eastern seven sisters.

For me, this was the toughest leg to plan in the entire journey.

We first start with a 28 hour journey on the 13125 - Kolkata - Sairang Express. Sairang is the new expansion of Indian railways that will take you via Assam, right to the hills of Mizoram.

Get down at Bairabi and take the Bairabi - Silchar Passenger to Silchar for your next North Eastern journey.

From Silchar, take the 15663 - Silchar – Agartala Express, to tick off Tripura.

From Tripura, take the 12097 - Agartala – Khongsang Jan Shatabdi, and get down at Jiribam, to touch the soil of Manipur.

Then you need to circle back to Silchar with the Jiribam - Silchar Passenger.

Now you need to hop, skip and jump to the next nodal point of the North East - Guwahati via the 15616 - Silchar – Guwahati Express.

This is a 13 hour journey which will allow you enough time to recuperate.

This journey also kind of showed me the extent of Assam as a state. I never knew you could have a 12 hour train journey entirely within Assam.

Now while you are in Guwahati. Take some rest here. Visit the Kamakhya Devi Temple and get her blessings.

If you did that, you would have had the privilege to visit both Mata Devi in Jammu and Kamakhya Devi in Assam. Few visit one. Rarer are those who visit both.

Also, use one day to take the Guwahati – Mendipathar Passenger and come back to Guwahati. This will tick Meghalaya off.

To summarize, till now you have completed Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Pondicherry, Karnataka, Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Jammu And Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya.

That is 26 in total.

5 more to go.

From Guwahati, take the 12087 - Guwahati - Naharlagun Jan Shatabdi to Naharlagun. Now you have covered Arunachal Pradesh as well.

Only one North East State remains - Nagaland.

Finish that by taking the 15818 - Naharlagun - Sukhovi Donnyi Polo Express. That is another 14 hour journey that I didn't think was possible in the North East.

When you get down at Sukhovi, you will have covered all the North Eastern States of India.

I don't know the exact timings, but to do the NE states of India, you would need at least a week if not more. That's how expansive these states are. Unfortunately for us, these states used to be covered in two seconds in the old DD Weather report.

One more fact, we have taken a 11 train journeys in the North Eastern region of India.

8 of them didn't exist before 2017.

This shows stellar work by the current govt in bringing Railways to the North East.

But I digress

From Sukhovi, get back to Guwahati on the same Donnyi Polo express, because post the hills of North East, now we head to the sea at Vizag.

For that you have 2 options

Either take the longest train in India, the 22503-Dibrugarh-Kanyakumari Vivek Express.

Or if you seek more comfort - the 12504-Agartala-SBC Humsafar Express

This way you will cover Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.

You are now close to the end of your epic journey.

And In case you are keeping track, we are now at 29/31.

Only 2 more states remain.

After enjoying the sea breeze and sea food if you are into it, get on the 20811 - Vizag - Raipur Vande Bharat Express.

That will tick off Chhattisgarh.

After this epic journey of 20 trains, only one state remains. Telangana

You can tick this off in two ways.

Either you can take the 12772 - Raipur - Secunderabad Super Fast express and land in Hyderabad for a nice Biriyani and call it a day.

If you feel you feel you deserve a sunny and sandy break after a journey that rivals Philieas Fogg in length and complexity, you can take the 17322 - Jasidh - Vasco Express which will take you all the way to Goa via Hyderabad.

There you can heartily celebrate your epic journey across 31 states of India.

A journey that was kind of impossible 10 years ago.

PS 1 - The only state which is not covered in this itinerary are Sikkim. Currently Sikkim has no railway, but one is under construction. The day it is completed, we can add a small leg there too.

PS 2 - It is my plan. But I am not saying it is the only plan. If you can do this better, suggestions welcome

PS 3 - Almost all types of trains are covered in this journey. Passenger trains, Normal Trains, Express Trains, LHB Coach, ICF Coach, Vande Bharat, Shatabdi, Jan Shatabdi and Humsafar. I think only Rajdhani and Double Decker was missed out. But you can't have everything.

PS 4- I could've shortened the North Easter Journey by taking Dimapur as the station for ticking off Nagaland. But the name Donyi Polo Express was too awesome to ignore.

PS 5- The entire journey would take approximately 21 days. So if any Youtuber wants to use this plan for their journey, they are welcome.

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

So satisfying this is !

[Ankit Sawant @SatanAtWink]

She's the hero Bangalore deserves, & also the one it needs right now.

She’s a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a dark knight against the society uncles who are going to learn the hard way what happens when they over reach their non-existent owner powers

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

Holy moly, what is it even ??

interesting news on pyramids !

[Interstellar @InterstellarUAP]

🚨 BREAKING: Italian radar engineer Filippo Biondi just dropped the biggest bombshell in archaeology history on Jesse Michels podcast

Using cutting-edge Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) from satellites, his team has detected:

- EIGHT massive man-made vertical shafts beneath the Giza Pyramids
- Two enormous underground structures over 1 KM long
- Massive hidden chambers more than 600 meters deep (twice as deep as previously thought possible)

These are NOT natural voids. The geometry is perfectly symmetrical and engineered.

This isn’t a “theory.” This is peer-reviewed radar tomography data that just got published.

We’ve been staring at the pyramids for 4,500 years… and the real complex was underground the entire time.

What did the ancients hide down there?

Joe Rogan & Jay Anderson have also given their opinions in the latest episode of American Alchemy

Full paper just dropped. History books are officially obsolete tonight.

#Giza #Pyramids #AncientEgypt #Archaeology #HiddenChambers

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

🤣🤣🤣 it’s always the time when it’s time !

[Tarun Raju @btarunr]

Putin will call Modi in a few days, having read the Gita:

"Dude have you even read the book you've gifted me? The hell do you mean by 'now is not the time for war'?"

[Verstappen News @verstappenews]

Max Verstappen's 2025 season

- Most Wins
- Most Poles
- Clawed back from a 100+ points deficit to only 2 in a slower car

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

X getting Bill Ackmanified……….but such a lovely rambling !

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Guys…I have a girlfriend.

Now I know what you’re thinking…how is it possible that anyone would want to be with me? I understand where you’re coming from. I think the answer is: her puzzle piece fits mine.

In my early twenties, I read the biography of the American founding father John Adams. He and his wife Abigail had one of the great partnerships in American history; intellectually matched, emotionally intertwined, and co-architects of something bigger than themselves. I wanted what they had.

But it wasn’t within reach. Years before, I’d married in a sort of arranged Mormon marriage. Unsure how else to explain it. We were functional, but we weren’t John and Abigail. We split after thirteen years.

At age 34, after selling Braintree Venmo, and emerging from a mismatched marriage and the repression of Mormonism, I set out to rebuild myself and find partnership.  I met a woman in LA who became my first-ever girlfriend. Coming from a sheltered background, I was blind to the obvious warnings. I was dangerously naive. That relationship unraveled and was followed by litigation. The experience was unnerving and left me wondering if I could ever trust again.

By the time I was 44, I started reconciling with the possibility of a life without partnership.

@_katetolo and I met at my brain interface company Kernel. She’d discovered my work using neurotechnology to improve human well-being and merge human and AI. Even though she’d been dreaming of a career in fashion, she was drawn to what she foresaw as the defining question of our time: how will humans successfully co-evolve with AI. We shared the same obsession.

The puzzle piece fit was immediate, as immediate as either of us had ever experienced.

Yet we maintained our professional boundaries. When we worked on our first project together, the back and forth was effortless. She could conceptualize and feel what I couldn’t and vice versa. It helped that both Kate and I had a natural disposition towards hard work. Our joy came from creation.

Kate was luminescent. When I saw her about the office, butterflies fluttered in my stomach.  Each day she’d show up wearing some unexpected combination of colors, textures, styles and accessories. Always tasteful, playful and interesting. She didn’t chase fancy brands. Most of her clothing was from the thrift store. It wasn’t how she looked but how her mind worked: original, eccentric, entirely her own. She was art.

We both worked very hard and valued every second of the day.  One evening around 6:30 pm she dropped by my office and we talked for hours. It had been all business before.  This was the first time we stepped into each other’s personal lives. My heart strings pulled but my brain pushed back. ‘We know we can’t trust again’, my mind firmly stated.

Our after-hours meet-ups in my office became a daily ritual. The favorite part of my day. We’d reminisce about work and tiptoe a bit deeper each time into each other’s personal lives.

I’d recently started my new anti-aging project and one night Kate suggested to me that I should put the entire thing online to allow others to follow on. We worked together to put up a website and got a v1 out. We pondered what to call it, and decided on ‘Project Blueprint’.

We were oddly from entirely different worlds but somehow the same person. Yet neither of us dared take the next step. We didn’t want to imperil our work relationship and we remained deeply skeptical of each other.  The combination of Kate being raised to distrust all things and me still feeling the sting of the previous relationship left us stirring in a pot of anticipatory disaster.

Before long, whether we liked it or not, we’d become each other's favorite person. We’d spend every moment we could together. Social events and the weekends were still off-limits as our relationship was professional. We were both secretly wondering, ‘does the other person feel what I’m feeling?’

Unable to withstand any longer, after a year and a half of unspoken affection, one night I softly floated the balloon of inquiry. She confirmed it was reciprocal.

Still, with things being so new, neither of us wanted to make our relationship public. We needed time to stabilize, mature and assess whether this was short or long term. I’m a 48 year old American, raised Mormon, with three children. She’s a 30 year old Bosnian-Australian-American. It took time to bridge our worlds. In our years of knowing each other, three of them have been navigating a relationship. All while building a business and movement. There have been many times where we didn’t know if we’d make it.

In the last year, we’ve found our flow.  I trust Kate as much as my mother. She knows how to scaffold trust. She anticipates your anticipation and knows your reaction before you react. She’s meticulous in the integrity of our relationship. She’s even been pivotal in helping my father and me reconcile and navigate the contours of our relationship.

In the past few years, Blueprint and Don’t Die have become global phenomena. Kate is the unsung hero.  She and I have been stride on stride since inception. She’s proven an exceptional executor and despite her unconventional background, intuitively knows things. Her creativity keeps me forever guessing what she’ll say or come up with next. Our minds have become so intertwined that life feels naked without her.

Her story warrants being told as others will be better off emulating her practices and abilities.

What I find most impressive about Kate is her prescience and thoughtfulness. She sees forwards, backwards, and side to side. Relative to her, I feel myopic in my awareness of the world. She can see through others, as an x-ray would. She then structures all that information and can package it in simple, understandable terms. In ways that allow for everyone to win.

Kate is soft spoken, self-deprecating and understated. These attributes cloak her ferocious ambition, piercing intellect, and delightful creativity. Give her five minutes and she will reframe your world. But most people don’t know to look. They assume she’s my assistant. It’s such a loss because people are looking for what she has to offer.

My son Talmage, Kate, and I are family. Nothing makes us happier than being together. Our conversations are fast, dark, and rowdy. Family feeds the soul, and we are nourished. As my son considers possible partners, he wisely models them off of Kate.

Deep companionship is a universal human want.  And while there are eight billion of us on this planet, most struggle to achieve it, including those in relationships. It’s the most fulfilling of human experiences and also the most elusive. The joy of being seen, appreciated and loved, and offering the same to another.

I wrote dozens of different sentences trying to capture what the want and struggle for deep companionship feels like. I deleted them all as none could holistically capture the emotional architecture of it.

Then one day while exercising, I realized what it feels like: what the explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew must have felt returning to land after being shipwrecked and surviving 497 days adrift in brutal Antarctic.

It’s a bit of a dramatic comparison, however, I suspect many of you can relate. Kate feels like land to me after being adrift and searching for 25 years.

Life sinks or sails based upon the quality of our most intimate relationships. No amount of professional success can plug the sinking hole of an acrimonious personal relationship.

At this point, Kate and I have nearly become one person. We have entire conversations with a single look, sound, gesture or image. We independently come up with the same ideas and insights, suggesting to me that maybe it’s our tandem effort generating them. Our relationship is stable, positive, and calm.

I’ve wanted this my entire life and impatiently waited 25 years for it to arrive. It’s better than anything I imagined.

Lucky me, I found my Abigail Adams.

[Raghav @RaghavaRayudu]

This idiot sometime ago wrote “the buck stops here”.

What a spineless idiot. Shame to even follow this idiot’s orders

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

Let’s make one thing crystal clear:

Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made — on the September 2 mission and all others since.

America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors — we mean it.